Metallic buttoning device.



PATENTED NOV. 27, 1906.

5. I. RAINS. METALLIC BUTTONING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 1905.

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ELEAZEB.

lllE'l'ALLlC BUTTGhilNG DEVEG Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2'7, 1906.

Application filed December 30, 1905. Serial No 293,905.

To (all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELEAZER I. RAINS, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city or N ew York, borough of Manhattan,

1 I i l in the county and State of New York, have 1 invented a new and 1m roved Metallic Buttoning Device, of whici the following is a full, clear, and exact descript on.

T he invention relates to garment-support- .iorward direction.

The invention consists of novel features 1 and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then ointed out in the claims.

A. practical embodiment of the invention represented in the accompanying drawforming a part of this specification, in 'imilar characters oi reference indicate :ponding' parts in all the views. ure 1, is a lace view of the inner side of a r nd. provided with the improvement. I n enlarged face view ol part of the )and and the but-toning device in normal position. Fig. 3 is a like view ol'- the same, showing the buttoning device in a strained position. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the same on the line a a of Fig. 2; and Figs. 5, e, and] are face views of modified forms of the improvement.

As illustrated in Fig. i, the waistband A of pair of pants is provided. with a number of swiveled and yielding metallic buttoning de vices B and non-yielding fixed buttoningdevices C, the said swiveied and yielding devices B being preferably three in number and attached to the Waistband A at the back thereof, and the said non-yielding fixed devices C are secured to the waistband at the sides or hip portions. The buttoning devices B and (l are properly spaced apart and are preferably located in 'the manner described and shown, as the principal strain when the wearer bends forward is at the back ortion of the connected arments or arts and hence the buttoning devices B are located at this particular point.

Each buttoning device B preferably made from apiece ol' wirc'bent, to form a buttoning member B, having its endsterminating in eyes B, engaging trunnions C, projecting from opposite sides of a slide C, mounted to turn on and to slide up and down on a guidewayl), preferably in the shape of a rod, screwed or otherwise secured at its ends to fastening devices E and E, secured to the waistband A, preferably by roviding the fastening devices E and E wit integral eyelets E penetrating the waistband A and clenched at the rear face thereof, as plainly indicated in Fig. i.

The slide C is spring-pressed, and for this purpose a spring 1* is coiled on the guideway 1) and presses with its lower end on the top of the slide C and abuts with its upper end against the fastening device E. Thus the slide C is normally held at rest against the fastening device E, as plainly shown in Figs.

. 1, 2, and 4; but when the device is in use and the buttoning member B is attached to a button or the like onthe shirt-waist or blouse and an undue strain is exerted by the wearer-- for instance, bending forwardthcn the buttoning Ineinber B slides upward on the guideway D against the tension of the spring F. By having the buttoning member B mounted to swing onjthe slide C and the latter 'capable of turning on the guideway D it is evident that the buttoningmember is swiveled and free to swing in almost any direction, thus allowing the buttoning mom ber ii to readily move with the button to which it is attached. It is understood that when the wearer bends over the waistband A and the shirt-waist or blouse tend to separate, and by having the buttouing ineniber B mounted to swing such separating movement is compensated for without impairing the sliding movement against the tension. of the spring F of the buttoning member ii.

By reference to Fig. {i it will be noticed that. the fastening devices E and l l hold the guideway D spaced from the inner side ol' the waistband A to allow 'lroc sliding oi the slide C on the guideway.

The fastening devices E and. it may be varied without deviating from the spirit of my invention. For instance, asshown. in Fig. 5, the fastening devices id" and .ll", carrying readily removed from the waistband whenever it is desired to wash the arment or when the devices B are to be transerred to another garment.

The buttoning member B may be of various-forms. For instance, as shown in Figs; 1 2, and 3, it is of approximately trefoil shape to permit of conveniently passing the buttoning member over the button and to engage the top portion with the shank of the button for securely buttoning the member B to the button of the shirt-waist, blouse, or like garment and to allow convenient'huttoning and unbuttoning of the member B. As shown in Fig. 7, the butt-oning member is in the form of a hook B mounted to swing on a stud or trunnion C, formed on the slide mounted to turn and to slide on a guideway D,.the same as above described and shown in Figs. 1, '2, 3, and 4. This hock-shaped but toning member can. be readily hooked onto the shank of the button from either side, as the slide C is free to turn on the guideway to carry the hook-shaped buttoning member to either side of the button.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the metallic buttoning device shown and described is very simple and durable in con struction, is composed of comparatively few parts, not liable to get easily out of order,

and the metallic buttoiiing device can be readily attached tothe waistband.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A metallic buttoning device for yieldingly, connecting two garments or two parts of garments with each other, comprising a guide on one part, and a buttoning member for engagement with the other part, the cuttoning member having a yielding connection with the said guide and arranged. to slide and to turn relative thereto, the huttoning memher being free to swing independent of the sliding and turning' movements. 7 2. A metallic buttomng device for yieldingly connecting two garments or two parts thereof with each other, comprising a buttoning member for engagement with a button on one garment, a guideway on the other garment, a slide on the said guidcway and on which the said buttoning member is mounted, the said slide being monntedto move up and down on said guidewayand to turn thereon, and a spring coiled on the said lJ-utt-"ning member for engagement with a button on one of the said parts, a guideway secured at its ends to the other of the said parts, the guideway extending a distance from the face of the part to which it is attached, a slide mounted to slide on the said guideway'and to turn-thereon, and on which the said buttoning member is mounted to swing, and a spring coiled on the said guideway and pressing the said slide.

5. A metallic buttoning device for yield ingly connecting, two garments or two parts of a garment with each other, comprising a buttonmg member for engagement with a button on one of the said parts, a guidewaysecured at its ends to the other of the said parts, the guideway extending a distance from the face of the part to which it is attached, a slide mounted to slide on the said guideway and to turn thereon, and provided with sidewise extending trunnions on which the said buttoning member is mounted to swing, and a spring coiled on the said guideway and pressing the said slide.

6. A metallic buttoning device for yieldingly connecting two garments or two parts of a garment with each other, comprising a buttoning member for engagement, with a button on one of the said parts, a guideway having attaching means at its ends for securing the guideway to the other of the said parts, the guideway extending a distance from the face of the part to which it is attached, a slide mounted to slide on the said guideway and to turn thereon, and on which the said buttoning member is mounted to swing, and a springcoiled on the said guide- Way and pressing the said slide.

7. A metallic: buttoning device for yieldingly connecting two garments or two parts of zit-garment with each other, comprising a buttoning-member adapted for engagement with station on one of the said parts, a rod lmviirg'fastening devices at its ends for securing the same to the other of said parts, the rod being spaced from the face of the part to which it is attached, a slide mounted to slide and to turn on said rod, and on which 5 on the slide and normally holding the same Witnesses:

the buttoning member is mounted to swing, I In testimony whereof I have signed my and a coiled spring on the said rod and bearname to this specification in the presence oi ing at one end against one of said fastening two subscribing Witnesses.

devices, the other end of the spring pressing ELEAZER I. RAINS.

in engagement with the other fastening de- S; E. RAiNs, vice. SIDNEY P. HEssEL. 

